SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 43 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.53% 0.56% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% 2.99% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £725 £568 £563
% change year-on-year +27.75% +0.89% +52.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

SD-WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 38 67 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.16% 18.87% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 15
10th Percentile £334 £273 £262
25th Percentile £436 £363 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £448 £538
Median % change year-on-year +14.53% -16.74% +13.16%
75th Percentile £535 £625 £588
90th Percentile £635 £718 -
East of England median daily rate £495 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -5.71% +27.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% - -9.99%
75th Percentile £18.79 £31.31 £21.37
90th Percentile £41.10 £71.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.00 £49.28
% change year-on-year +8.87% +25.81% -24.18%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SD-WAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

SD-WAN job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

SD-WAN
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SD-WAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SD-WAN

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +2 2 £725 - 9
SD-WAN
East of England

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIP
1 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds